To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.